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Love Is Found Within: 3 Life Lessons From My Single Life

Single Life, photograph of heart and figure by Nick Fewings

Photograph by Nick Fewings

Being single doesn’t mean you have to be without love in your life

I’m 35 and I’m single. You’re already forming an opinion. It’s OK. It’s natural. We form judgments without thinking.

It’s amazing how everyone wants to share their unsolicited opinion in the strangest of places. These are all things I hear on a fairly regular basis — and so do all of my other single friends:

  • You’re still so young!
  • But you’re so great.
  • He’s out there somewhere.
  • Poor thing.

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